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Book Europeans writing the Mezzogiorno

Download or read book Europeans writing the Mezzogiorno written by Bernard Dieterle and published by Université de Saint-Etienne. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity

Download or read book Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity written by Dawn Hollis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the longue dureé of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience? In what ways has human understanding of mountains changed – or stayed the same? Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity opens up a new conversation between ancient and modern engagements with mountains. It highlights the ongoing relevance of ancient understandings of mountain environments to the postclassical and present-day world, while also suggesting ways in which modern approaches to landscape can generate new questions about premodern responses. It brings together experts from across many different disciplines and periods, offering case studies on topics ranging from classical Greek drama to Renaissance art, and from early modern natural philosophy to nineteenth-century travel writing. Throughout, essays engage with key themes of temporality, knowledge, identity, and experience in the mountain landscape. As a whole, the volume suggests that modern responses to mountains participate in rhetorical and experiential patterns that stretch right back to the ancient Mediterranean. It also makes the case for collaborative, cross-period research as a route both for understanding human relations with the natural world in the past, and informing them in the present.

Book Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America

Download or read book Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America written by Jeremy Jennings and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory intellectual biography of Tocqueville, told through his wide-ranging travels—most of them, aside from his journey to America, barely known. It might be the most famous journey in the history of political thought: in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville sailed from France to the United States, spent nine months touring and observing the political culture of the fledgling republic, and produced the classic Democracy in America. But the United States was just one of the many places documented by the inveterate traveler. Jeremy Jennings follows Tocqueville’s voyages—by sailing ship, stagecoach, horseback, train, and foot—across Europe, North Africa, and of course North America. Along the way, Jennings reveals underappreciated aspects of Tocqueville’s character and sheds new light on the depth and range of his political and cultural commentary. Despite recurrent ill health and ever-growing political responsibilities, Tocqueville never stopped moving or learning. He wanted to understand what made political communities tick, what elite and popular mores they rested on, and how they were adjusting to rapid social and economic change—the rise of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, to be sure, but also the expansion of empire and the emergence of socialism. He lauded the orderly, Catholic-dominated society of Quebec; presciently diagnosed the boisterous but dangerously chauvinistic politics of Germany; considered England the freest and most unequal place on Earth; deplored the poverty he saw in Ireland; and championed French colonial settlement in Algeria. Drawing on correspondence, published writings, speeches, and the recollections of contemporaries, Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America is a panoramic combination of biography, history, and political theory that fully reflects the complex, restless mind at its center.

Book The View from Vesuvius

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  • Author : Nelson Moe
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2002-07-25
  • ISBN : 9780520226524
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book The View from Vesuvius written by Nelson Moe and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-07-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nelson Moe provides an examination of the vexed relationship between the two parts of Italy, often referred to as the 'Southern Question', that has shaped that nation's political, social and cultural life throughout the 20th century.

Book Eugene de Mazenod  The steps of a vocation  1782 1814

Download or read book Eugene de Mazenod The steps of a vocation 1782 1814 written by Jean Leflon and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book French VI  Nineteenth Century French Literature Bibliography

Download or read book French VI Nineteenth Century French Literature Bibliography written by Modern Language Association of America. French VII. Bibliography Committee and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical and biographical references for the study of nineteenth century French literature.

Book French Studies

Download or read book French Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The French Review

Download or read book The French Review written by James Frederick Mason and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alexandre Dumas P  re

Download or read book Alexandre Dumas P re written by Douglas Munro and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1985 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Download or read book Bulletin of the History of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Transactions of the 15th- annual meetings of the American Association of the History of Medicine, 1939-

Book Voyageurs fran  ais en Sicile au temps du romantisme  1802 1848

Download or read book Voyageurs fran ais en Sicile au temps du romantisme 1802 1848 written by Hélène Tuzet and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iconclass

Download or read book Iconclass written by Henri Waal and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making and Remaking Italy

Download or read book Making and Remaking Italy written by Albert Russell Ascoli and published by . This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book considers many of the ways in which national identity was imagined, implemented and contested within Italian culture before, during and after the period of Italian unification in the mid-nineteenth century. Taking a fresh approach towards national icons cherished by both Left and Right, the collection's authors examine the complex interaction between a perceived need for national identity and the fragmented nature of the Italian peninsula. In so doing, they draw on examples from a wide range of artistic and cultural media.The book opens with an introduction which defines the case of the Italian 'Risorgimento' and places it within a large context of European and global nation-building and nationalism. Authors discuss how episodes from the distant past were used by nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists, musicians, and writers to recreate narratives of nationhood, as well as how the problem of Italian identity was before and during the Risorgimento. The question of who belonged in the new Italy, who remained outsiders, and how social and sexual differences entered into defining these groups is also addressed. The book concludes with an analysis of twentieth-century attempts to appropriate and reforge the 'spirit' of the Risorgimento, under Fascism and in our own time.

Book Iconclass  Bibliography   no   1 8

Download or read book Iconclass Bibliography no 1 8 written by Henri Waal and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book French VI Bibliography

Download or read book French VI Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical and biographical references for the study of nineteenth century French literature.